Both e-learning and AVT (Audiovisual Translation) are in their infancy. At the UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) a team of experts from the two learning areas of Translation Studies and Pedagogy was created in order to tackle both issues at theoretical and practical levels, so that they could design, create and set up an e-AVT university postgraduate course. This paper presents the pedagogical grounding behind the e-learning AVT course.